Post #4372290

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A8. #BikeNite. On Thurs. I did an emtb ride to check out the area that burned in the Sandy Fire, Simi Valley, SoCal back in May. I had never ridden over in that area because I thought it was mostly steep dirt fire roads, which aren't all that interesting to me. I noticed that the fire had exposed some unofficial single-track trails. One of them was crazy steep, which I'm not thrilled about. The one I did, called "Ham Radio" for some reason, was reasonable, but on a ridge-line and very exposed with steep drop-offs on the sides. Fun, but not my favorite thing, so I took it slowly. I would have preferred not seeing how close I was to the edge. There was another trail further down with lots of big jumps. I'm too old for that kind of thing, so, I bypassed the jumps. It was still fun, since there were lots of twists and banked turns. It was a pretty warm day (~90F) and I wasn't familiar with the area, so I mostly played it safe. Took streets back to a trail-head that I knew about. Ended up getting a flat about a mile from the end. Didn't want to deal with it in the heat, so used a mini electric pump to pump it up once and took it slowly the rest of the way on a mostly flat tire. I had been meaning to replace that tire anyway. Even though it was an ebike ride, Garmin thought it was very demanding. My heart rate was higher the entire ride due to the heat.